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"For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently."
Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Some of us will smart for it."
Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I was not born under a rhyming planet."
Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Done to death by slanderous tongues."
Much Ado about Nothing. Act v. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Or, having sworn too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Light seeking light doth light of light beguile."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Small have continual plodders ever won Save base authority from others' books. These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights That give a name to every fixed star Have no more profit of their shining nights Than those that walk and wot not what they are."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A high hope for a low heaven."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"That unlettered small-knowing soul."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!"
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now 't is not to be found."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The rational hind Costard."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A man of sovereign parts he is esteem'd; Well fitted in arts, glorious in arms: Nothing becomes him ill that he would well."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A merrier man, Within the limit of becoming mirth, I never spent an hour's talk withal."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Delivers in such apt and gracious words That aged ears play truant at his tales, And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"By my penny of observation."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The boy hath sold him a bargain,--a goose."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"To sell a bargain well is as cunning as fast and loose."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A very beadle to a humorous sigh."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid; Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms, The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans, Liege of all loiterers and malcontents."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iii. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A buck of the first head."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He hath never fed of the dainties that are bred in a book; he hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Many can brook the weather that love not the wind."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"You two are book-men."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Dictynna, goodman Dull."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"These are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? Learning is but an adjunct to ourself."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"It adds a precious seeing to the eye."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As sweet and musical As bright Apollo's lute, strung with his hair; And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods Makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Priscian! a little scratched, 't will serve."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"They have measured many a mile To tread a measure with you on this grass."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Let me take you a button-hole lower."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When daisies pied and violets blue, And lady-smocks all silver-white, And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo."
Love's Labour's Lost. Act v. Sc. 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"For aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth."
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes."
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Swift as a shadow, short as any dream; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That in a spleen unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say, "Behold!" The jaws of darkness do devour it up: So quick bright things come to confusion."
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act i. Sc. 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain